My daughter and I went to a new little thrift shop near our home today and I was so pleased to find this antique cloth for a few dollars....

My snowdrops are up!

We took the kids to see the final How to Train Your Dragon film yesterday afternoon. It was a great movie... we're all sad that th...

  Cadbury Mini Eggs are my favorite Easter candy and I really like the new sparkly ones!

I love the illustrations in Tales from the Brothers Grimm Selected and Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger .

Today was my first day out of bed.  I thoroughly cleaned our bedroom and bathroom (washing linens and towel, dusting, vacuuming, and disi...

I am still the only one sick!  I have been enjoying vast amounts of tea and far too many episodes of Jamestown, season two (using PBS Pa...

I saw Pollyanna (2016) for the first time a year or so ago (I think Auntie Leila recommended it!) and loved the beautiful suncatche...

Oh, dear.  I started to get worse this afternoon, so my husband and I took a trip to the doctor. It was confirmed that I have the ...

My visits to the ER, multiple doctors' offices, and the infusion center this week has caught up to me. I woke up today with a coug...

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Roses from my jetsetting Valentine. He was away for a few days this week for work, but still remembered flowers at 10.30p yesterday. ...

That feeling you get when your child's math teacher drives over to basketball practice at 6.30p to drop off a huge bag of Get Well...

O ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things."                                                           ...

We headed out to see our girl's GI doctor very early this morning and ended up being squeezed in for an infusion in the mid-afternoon...

Our girl has been struggling with a Crhon's flair for too many days now.  We ended up in our local ER after the school nurse suggeste...

The paperwhite bulbs that I bought a few weeks ago have started blooming and are filling the house with their heady scent.  I especia...